Test 5 · Homophones and near-homophones

«a wee question, is it a peace of cake?» What is the trick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wee question, trick · What happens: be · To what, where: peace

This is test 5 of lesson 11 «Homophones and near-homophones» of the English course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: «a wee question, is it a peace of cake?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 question	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 question	det
3	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 question	amod
4	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 peace	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 question	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 peace	cop
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 peace	nsubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 peace	det
9	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 cake	case
11	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 peace	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 peace	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 peace	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	a wee question	a peace				of cake	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What is the trick?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trick	det
4	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the trick						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Both spellings mean the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 spellings	det
2	spellings	spelling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mean	nsubj
3	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	both spellings	the same					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Topic

Option 2

«Peace» is for cake, «piece» for pie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Peace	punct
2	Peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cake	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Peace	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cake	cop
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 cake	case
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 piece	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 piece	punct
9	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cake	appos
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 piece	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 pie	case
12	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cake	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Peace					for cake; for pie	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

«A piece of pie»: both have «pie»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 piece	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 piece	det
3	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 pie	case
5	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 piece	nmod
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 piece	punct
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 pie	punct
11	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 pie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	both	a piece of pie					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Patient

Option 4

«Peace» has «pea», like food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Peace	punct
2	Peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Peace	punct
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 pea	punct
6	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 pea	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 food	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 food	case
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Peace	pea					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient

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